"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
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"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
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"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
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"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."
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"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
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"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
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"If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted"
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
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"Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."
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"A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint."
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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
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"God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation."
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"The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists."
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"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
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"They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground."
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"The worst men often give the best advice."
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